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CURTAIN RING.

No. 364,752. Patented June 14, 1887.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN COMPTON, OF \VORTHING, COUNTY OF. SUSSEX, ENGLAND.

CURTAIN-RING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 364,752, dated June 14, 1887.

Application filed May 24, 1886.. Serial No. 903,163. (No model.) Patented in England March 20, 1886. No. 3,943; in France May 3,1886, No. 175,877; in Belgium May 7, 1886, No. 73,024; in Italy July 27, 1886, No. 19,971; in Spain August 27, 1886, No.

9,271, and in AustriaHungary October 15, 1886, No. 67,648.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that'I, EDWIN COMPTON, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at 46 Chapel Road, WVorthing, Sussex, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in On rtain-Ri ngs, (the same having been patented in the following-named countries: the Kingdom of Great Britain, by Letters Patent No. 3, 943, dated March 20, 1886; by Letters Patent in Spain,No. 9,271,dated August 27 1886;by Letters Patent in Austria-Hungary, No. 67,648, dated October 15, 1886; by Letters Patent in Italy, No. 19, 971, dated July 27,1886 ;'by Letters Patent in Belgium, 170,723,024, dated May 7, 1886, and by Letters Patent in France, No. 175,877, dated May 3, 1886,) of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists ol'a ring made of any suitable wire, with a closed central loop, a, formed therein by bending said wire across itself, to impart spring thereto, and terminating at one end in a sharp point, b, and at the other in a doubly-bent hook, which not only serves as an eye to engage said point, but forms a guard for said point exterior thereto. On pressing the two ends together the point takes into the eye and is secured therein by the springaction of the central loop.

Figure 1 shows the ring closed. Fig. 2 shows it open. Fig. 3 shows the method of useful for pinning curtains together (see Fig.

4) and for various other purposes; fourth, they combine the essential features of simplicity and convenience.

I claim 1. A curtain-ring consisting of a piece of wire bent across itself in the middle to form a closedspring-loop, a, and having at one end a sharp outwardly-extending point, b, and at the other end a doubly-curved hook, c, which receives and guards said point, substantially as set forth.

2. A curtain-ring consisting of a piece of wire provided with a sharp outwardly-ex tending point, I), and a doubly-bent hook, c, which serves as a guard therefor, substunti all y as set forth.

' EDWIN COMPTON. Witnesses;

SPRIGLEY BowDEN,

'33 Southampton Buildings, Holborn, London.

-WALTER J'. SKERTEN, 17 Graceclmrch St. London, E. O. 

